Examples

Republicans, who have come up with the mid-term locution of "Pledge to America" to appropriate a populist tone, have meanwhile, called for an end of the "government takeover" of Fannie and Freddie and a "shrinking of their portfolios."

But we call a locution ˜proper™ when we use it according to the signification properly and principally given to it, and we call a locution ˜improper™ when we use it otherwise, although we legitimately can use it otherwise.

If it is true that “woof ticket” did not emerge into the mainstream print media until the 1980s and 1990s sources you cited, I would consider it a fascinating example of a short-lived slang locution entering written usage decades after it had achieved obsolescence in its original oral context.

From Rush Limbaugh to Kenneth Blackwell, conservatives are openly voicing their hope that the government will fail to address the downturn (which led Steve Benen to wonder, but to his "locution" and "rhetoric."

Credit is believed to be an exceptional example of this phenomenon, a rare instance of an ancient locution in Indo-European: *kerd- (“heart”) + *dhē- (“put”), meaning something like “to set the heart,” and thus “to place trust (in).”

But, to borrow a locution from Daniel Gross, "One would be very hard-pressed to find a serious professional historian -- I mean a serious historian, not a think-tank wanker, not an economist" who would argue that the New Deal consisted primarily of deposit insurance, going off the gold standard, and taking the foot off the monetary and fiscal brakes.